Aaargh! the design of seed packets!

Have just come in from intensive planting in the veg bed to find all the rest of the beetroot seeds are floating around in the pocket of my apron along with bits of wire and other detritus. Why does every large seed company insist on these silly packets? If you cut off the top, you lose half the instructions. So I open them at the side, not knowing if the seeds are loose or in a little foil packet. Since I don't carry a supply of paper clips around the garden, even folding over the packet is not going to work, these pesky seeds are going to find there way out.

The small seed companies often put the seeds in a tiny plastic bag that can be re-sealed, Hurrah. But then the instructions have to come on a separate piece of paper I would have thought that at this stage in mankinds grasp of the material world some brainiac could have figured out a better solution.

Artjack your dead right even today i had to cut the top of the cucumber packet off and with it the dates and info i needed and all the rest from Kings Seeds were the same ,,Yes lets see a change to see- through packets like Swiss Sue is showing ,I hope the seed companies are watching aint rocket is it
Alan4711